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Give me a break. I have seen worse pictures on the side of a bus shelter.

Who cares if a couple of wowsers get their panties in a bunch? Society suffers when everyone has to tiptoe around some deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about.

No-one important that I know about has left the community because of this or any other contrived pseudo-scandal. Rails' popularity has not waned; rather the opposite. I could not care less if a small number of easily-offended prudes are scared away by a mild show of skin. In fact, it seems like a good thing.

What was that PG said .. "offending the right people"? Sounds like the right people have been offended here.

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| I have seen worse pictures on the side of a bus shelter

So? That makes it any less wrong?

| Society suffers when everyone has to tiptoe around some deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about

Do you have evidence about this? I think that's quite the contrary. Surely free speech is important, having personally experienced the aftermath of a communist regime, and not being allowed calling a turd for what it is surely sucks. But this is a different story.

And I think that deranged minority you're speaking of are the women.

| I could not care less if a small number of easily-offended prudes are scared away by a mild show of skin.

What ever happened to manners? Personally I don't care about looking professional. I don't like the term, because "professional" means working for money, and I happen to enjoy what I do.

But this isn't about being professional or not. This is about respecting other people. It's about showing courtesy to others, such that the others can do the same for you. I don't know in what society you live in, but I'm fed up with the racist, antisemitic and generally foul language in the one I live in. Maybe you've been spoiled? ;)

"So? That makes it any less wrong?"

No, it means that it is self-evidently common and of questionable "offence value". In other words, the burden is on you to prove wrongness, since it seems to be just fine everywhere else.

"I think that's quite the contrary."

OK, let me get this straight. The contrary of what I said is:

Society prospers when everyone has to tiptoe around some deranged minority's wacky list of things to be outraged about.

Surely you are not seriously asserting the above. If you are, I can't be bothered arguing because you are either a troll or .. probably incapable of understanding no matter how much I explain. If you are not saying that, please restate.

"What ever happened to manners?"

What has this got to do with manners!?

"This is about respecting other people. It's about showing courtesy to others, such that the others can do the same for you."

I'm sorry pal but I have no idea what you are talking about. I do not see how this presentation had anything to do with "respect" or "courtesy". Of course I am in favour of those things.

No, this is about a small minority choosing to find offence in the utterly mundane and then demanding heads roll to quench their self-righteous outrage. Fuck those people. Makes me want to offend them.

"I don't know in what society you live in, but I'm fed up with the racist, antisemitic and generally foul language in the one I live in."

Rather orthogonal to my original comment, don't you think? If you don't like where you live, maybe you should consider moving.

The side of a bus shelter usually displays advertising, not a subtle technological discussion on the state non-relational distributed key/value databases and their comparative value to RDBMs systems.